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Other Changes

Improved Feedback Reporter.

When creating a printout or PDF, the status bar should show some progress information

Added: palettes: if a word is spelled correctly and has no entry in Nisus Thesaurus (eg: perhaps because it is not English), the language palette should display the system dictionary definition for that word, if one is available.

Added: added a menu command that shows the system typography panel directly, under Format > Fonts.

Added: added menus to jump to specific preference panes.

Added: spelling: the user can customize the color of the dotted underlines that show spelling mistakes.

Added: user should be able to sort recently opened and saved file lists in the Document Manager by natural ordering (eg: list most recently saved files at the top). This sorting can now be done by sorting by the file icon column.

Changed: new file templates, glossaries, and macros now prefer to be stored in the Document Manager. This is because the standard OS X file open and save dialogs will not show any folders inside the sandbox.

Changed: when saving a document, progress is now always immediately shown in the document's status bar (instead of popping up a status panel after a delay). Progress reporting during saving has also been made more accurate.

File Fidelity

Fixed: lists: Apple's RTF sometimes uses a special empty list style to indicate that the list style should be "none". We should detect that and not apply a numbered list.

Fixed: to avert issues with Sente document scans, changed how special characters are saved to RTF.

Changed: tables: when importing floating tables from Microsoft Word, if the table is very large, it is now converted to be an inline table so that it can be paginated.

Fixed: text from Accordance bible study could be imported with the wrong font and possibly garbled characters.

Fixed: style names should not be (re)localized when opening a document unless they are loaded from the Nisus New File template.

Fixed: images: when opening RTF files from Microsoft Word with EMF/WMF images, Nisus Writer should resave that image data in a way that's compatible with Microsoft Word, even if NWP cannot display the images directly.

Fixed: import: if the import process for a document does not yield an explicit zoom, the default zoom from the user's Nisus New File should be used.

Fixed: if memory is exhausted when saving an RTF file, should not hang the application.

Fixed: drag-dropping a file into an existing document, when that file required a file importer (eg: DOCX file format), would incorrectly insert undecoded bytes from the source file.

Find & Replace

Changed: find: Nisus Writer is more liberal in importing the shared system find string.

Fixed: tables: typing on the line of text just before or after a table could be very slow if the table was very large.

Fixed: tables: a table's horizontal offset should never place it completely out of view.

Fixed: tables: should not crash/hang when opening a file with an RTF field at the start of a table cell.

Fixed: tables: sometimes autoscrolling a table selection would be too aggressive, unnecessarily scrolling when the selected cells were already visible.

Bug Fixes

Fixed: could hang when pasting content from Apple apps (eg: Safari or Mail), if a particular sequence of hyperlinks and tables was encountered.

Fixed: fixed some possible crashes related to text layout.

Changed: improved behavior when the Apple text engine encounters certain kinds of bugs: instead of crashing or hanging Nisus Writer, an error is displayed for the relevant document, allowing the user to save, close, and reopen it.

Fixed: could crash when switching into Draft View and restoring the prior zoom/scroll location.

Fixed: fixed some potential crashes related to toolbar items.

Fixed: fixed line spacing could be incorrectly enforced during text layout when editing in certain mixes of formatting.

Fixed: should be able to change the text color of just combining marks, leaving the base character's color unaffected.

Fixed: when creating a printout or PDF, automatic numbers could show incorrect total number of pages, words, or paragraphs.

Changed: inserting a newline in front of whitespace at the end of a line of text should switch the paragraph style to the appropriate "next style" as necessary.

Fixed: doc man: the last accessed date in the Document Manager should match the date shown in the Finder, instead of using the last data access date.

Changed: the Open Recent menu now obeys Document Manager preferences that control whether the file extension is shown, and whether deleted and trashed files are shown.

Fixed: the "Edit Link" and "Remove Link" commands should be enabled if a zero-length selection rests inside an applied link.

Fixed: QuickFix should not expand an entry if the result is already in place. For example, if the user has a correction to turn "!" into " !", QuickFix will not turn "Hello !" into "Hello ! " if the user inserts a space after the exclamation.